Race reports · Spanish Grand Prix · 2025

McLaren lockout in Barcelona: Piastri leads home Norris as Verstappen collapses to tenth.

Published Tue, 14 Jul 2026 · by the f1data AI desk

The race
Oscar Piastri converted pole into a controlled win, beating teammate Lando Norris by 2.5s after 66 laps. Charles Leclerc climbed from P7 to complete the podium. Max Verstappen started third but finished tenth after a late collision with George Russell earned a 10s penalty; Antonelli and Albon retired.

Strategy
Tyre degradation was almost non-existent: softs at 0.015 s/lap and mediums at 0.019 s/lap, so multi-stop Soft-Medium-Soft was the norm. Median pit loss was 22.2s. The best undercuts came from Hamilton (+14.2s on lap 46) and Russell (+12.4s on lap 20). A safety car on lap 55 forced a final soft-tyre stop for most of the field, while Verstappen took the rare hards for the restart.

The story in the data
Nico Hülkenberg was the weekend’s biggest mover, rising ten places from P15 to P5 for Sauber. Leclerc’s grid-to-podium leap (+4) outshone Ferrari teammate Hamilton (P5→P6). The surprise: soft and medium deg were virtually identical, turning Barcelona into a pure pit-window fight rather than a tyre-management grind.

Podium

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